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John Richard Morgan-GuyB.A.(Lampeter); Ph.D.(Wales); LicDD (Lampeter); F.R.Hist.S.AHRC Project Research Fellow (2005–8)Born, Cardiff, 1944. Educated at Cardiff High School 1955–1962. Matriculated at St David’s College, Lampeter (now University of Wales, Lampeter) 1962. B.A.(2nd.Class Hons.History) 1965. St Stephen’s House, Oxford 1965–1967, where he acted as Tutor in Church History from 1966–1967. Made Deacon at Trinity 1967 by the Bishop of Llandaff, and ordained Priest at Advent 1968 by the Archbishop of Wales. Undertook research in the Department of Theology at Lampeter, under the supervision of the Revd Dr David Selwyn from 1970 onwards, successfully defending his thesis for the degree of Ph.D. of the University of Wales in 1984. Elected a Fellow of the Ancient Monuments Society in 1966; an Associate of the Royal Historical Society in 1980; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1981 and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2005. Served in a number of pastoral charges within the Church in Wales. Assistant Curate of Canton St Catherine from 1967–1968, and of Roath St Saviour from 1968-1970. Chaplain of Llandough Hospital, Penarth from 1970–1971, and Assistant Curate of Machen, with responsibility for the parish of Rudry from 1971–1974. Appointed Rector of Wolvesnewton, with Kilgwrrwg and Devauden by the Bishop of Monmouth in 1974, where he remained until 1980. Appointed Vicar of Betws Cedewain, and Rector of Tregynon with Llanwyddelan in the diocese of St Asaph by the Diocesan Board of Patronage in 1993, and as Rural Dean of Cedewain by the Archbishop of Wales in 1997. He resigned from both appointments later that year. From 1980 until 1993 he lived in Somerset, acting as Honorary Assistant Curate in the parish of Holy Trinity, Yeovil, and for a time during those years also regularly acted as a locum tenens at St Vedast’s, Foster Lane, in the City of London. Until 1984 he was primarily engaged in research for the completion of his Ph.D., and thereafter acted as Archives Adviser to the Somerset Health Authority, serving also as a member of the Specialist Repositories’ Group of the Society of Archivists. In 1992 he was also elected as a Vice-President of the Octavia Hill Society, and appointed a Trustee of the Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum at Wisbech, in which capacity he still serves. In 2006 he was appointed a Trustee and Director of the Friends of Friendless Churches. During most of the period in which he was engaged in the pastoral ministry of the Anglican Church in Wales and England, he was also actively concerned with ministerial education. In the 1970s he was a tutor in Christian Doctrine, Preaching and the Philosophy of Religion on the Monmouth Diocesan In-Service, Post-Ordination and Non-Stipendiary Ministerial Training Courses, and in the 1990s tutor in Church History on ministerial and lay-training courses in the diocese of St Asaph. Since 2000 he has acted as tutor in Modern Church History at the Welsh National Centre for Ecumenical Studies, Trinity College, Carmarthen, and also serves on the Management Committee of that Centre. In 1984, with Canon R.L. Brown, he founded The Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History, and acted as Joint Editor until 1992. He was joint-editor of its successor, The Journal of Welsh Religious History from 1992–2000, and consulting-editor from 2000-2002. In parallel with his interest in Church History, he has contributed to the study of the History of Medicine. He was a Council Member of the British Society for the History of Medicine for a number of years, the United Kingdom delegate to the Council of the International Society for the History of Medicine, and a member of the Faculty of the History of Medicine of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in London. He returned to Lampeter late in 1997, where, initially, from 1998–2003 he was the University Archivist, and taught part-time in the department of Theology, and on that department’s Open-Learning programme. From 1999–2003 he was part of the research team, led by Peter Lord, at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies in Aberystwyth, contributing to the “Visual Culture of Wales” Project, and in particular to the volume (and its associated CD-ROM) Medieval Vision. During the year 2001 his work on that project was funded by the Leverhulme Trust. He was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow of University of Wales, Lampeter, by the University’s Senate in 2004. From 2005-08 he was the Research Fellow on the Imaging the Bible in Wales AHRC Project and and then Lecturer in Theology and Church History at the University, now the University of Wales Trinity St David. John Morgan-Guy retired in 2011. |
 Window by Florence Camm, Church of St Thomas a Becket, Wolvesnewton (below)
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